I upvoted and chuckled, but please use Imgur or similar links while the entire ecosystem is being hit by the Reddit hug of death :)
Barbarian
joined 1 year ago
If you're the first person to subscribe to a community from your server, what you need to do is go to the community search, switch from "Communities" to "All", then paste in the full URL (https://lemmy.ml/c/worldbuilding)
I know it's not great, but keep in mind that Lemmy just increased their userbase by 12-fold overnight and it's a 2-man dev team. This isn't some glossy corporate product, and there will be teething issues.
Yup. The entire ecosystem is experiencing the Reddit hug of death. Server maintainers are trying to upgrade their hardware as fast as possible and the devs are trying to optimize the code as fast as humanly possible.
I joined the same day as the APIocalypse happened, and this is a wild ride to watch.
You can disable the creation of new communities. If I understand what you want to do correctly (host users but not content), just make an instance, disable community creation, and put a stickied post linking the community finder and explaining that you should add using the full URL of the community
Any user could just put in the full URL of your community to subscribe like I did, but this is a tumultuous time. Just trying to make things as easy as possible for the torrent of new users coming in :)
Completely agree. I'll be ecstatic if Lemmy hits the point where it's self-sustaining. It doesn't need to attract millions, but it needs enough active engaged users to post and comment so that there's enough interesting shit here
Subscribed to pull your community into lemmy.ml, should show up if anyone searches for 3D printing now
Arrr me matey! I can't walk the plank, me wings'll get in the way!
I think a lot more play the Steam one, as it looks better
Yup, pack it up boys. Was a good 2 days, but as lemmy.ml has the only functional server on the planet, we're done here (/s, obviously)
Give it time. The enshittification will continue. If they don't leave now, maybe it'll be when old.reddit.com is removed. Or maybe it'll be once they eventually ban NSFW content once and for all. Or maybe they'll start requiring admin permission for certain actions. Or maybe it'll be when ads are more common than posts and unblockable.
I am very confident this won't be the last stupid thing they do in the runup to the IPO and beyond.
That bar is going to be way more vertical tomorrow. The community finder is reporting 2 communities breaking 7k+ users.